Sweetheart, Do You Still Love Me

Chapter 253

Elspeth frowned, not expecting him to have experienced something like that.“It was because of Arthur,” he uttered with his eyes shut. He still remembered that experience. When Arthur was a child, he liked to sit by the lake. As the eldest brother, Callum would often go over to check on him. One day, one of Arthur’s toys suddenly dropped into the water, so he asked Callum, “Callum, could you please go and get it for me?” Although Callum couldn’t swim, he couldn’t bring himself to reject Arthur when he saw how much he was looking forward to it. Thus, he forced himself to do it.Before Callum got into the water, Arthur tied a rope to his body and said, “Callum, don’t be scared. I’ll tie this rope around the tree so that you won’t get lost in the water.” However, the rope broke when he entered the water, and he was washed away by the huge waves shortly after. After he was rescued by the nearby residents, he suffered from a fever. Ever since that incident, he never went into the water anymore.“Why weren’t you afraid when you were rescuing me?” Elspeth asked puzzledly.“I’m not sure. When I jumped into the lake, it never occurred to me that I was afraid of water. Perhaps I was in a rush to save you.” Callum couldn’t understand his behavior as well.“It must be the power of love,” Elspeth said with a straight face.“Stop it now, both of you. Can’t you